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The Independent reports women have been speaking out on Reddit, sharing the red flags we should all look out for in our relationships.

The top sign? “Trying to isolate you from friends or family.”

Indeed, one woman wrote: “Once I realised that I was pulling away from everyone in my life because if he couldn't trust them then I couldn't trust them, I had a huge ‘oh s***’ moment where I realised ‘Oh my god, he's about to start getting physically abusive.’

"Got out of there so fast after that."

Many women in the discussion agreed that it’s a warning sign if your boyfriend makes remarks such as “All women are crazy, except you” or “You're different from other girls” because it suggests a misogynistic view of all women being the same.

Over the last decade, rates of domestic abuse against women across both countries have been steadily decreasing since peaking in 2005-6, when 12 per cent of women were abused.

By 2015-16, the rate had dropped to eight per cent - or one in every 13 women.

Despite decreasing rates of domestic abuse, hundreds of women across England and Wales are still killed by partners every year.

On average, more than 300 women were victims of domestic homicide every year between April 2013 and March 2015.

In fact, women were more than twice as likely to be murdered by a partner than by anyone else.

Meanwhile, rates of domestic abuse against men have remained at between four and five per cent since 2008-9.

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